How to eat red bean and barley flour correctly

Red bean and coix seed powder is a powder made through processing. It has a good conditioning effect if you drink some of it with water. Especially for people whose faces are always oily and damp, you can eat some red bean and coix seed powder appropriately, which can achieve a certain conditioning and health-care effect. In addition, it has certain health-care effects for people who have bad breath, loss of appetite due to fatigue, etc.

We all know that excessive moisture in the body can seriously affect our health. Before talking about red bean and coix seed powder, let’s first talk about how to determine whether there is too much moisture in the body?

1. The hair and skin are particularly greasy and dirty

2. Excessive eye secretions, excessive sweating, and sticky skin

3. Sore limbs, heavy and painful body, and difficulty in flexing and extending joints

4. Strong body odor such as bad breath and foot odor

5. Fat and lazy to exercise

6. Bitter taste in the mouth and loss of appetite after fatigue

7. Frequent bloating and diarrhea

8. The stool is sticky and uncomfortable, easily sticks to the toilet, and there is a feeling of incomplete defecation

9. Yellow urine with a strong odor

10. Men are prone to scrotal moisture, while women have more vaginal discharge.

If one or more of the above situations occur, it means that there is a lot of dampness, which means you need to adjust your diet. So back to the beginning of the article, why does drinking red bean and coix seed powder increase dampness?

First, let’s learn about red beans and coix seeds .

Let’s talk about coix seed first

Its main effect is to promote diuresis. Ancient books record that "Coix seed is the best at promoting diuresis without depleting the true yin energy. It is most suitable for those with excessive dampness in the lower body." If there is dampness in the body, such as fluid accumulation, edema, eczema, abscesses and other problems related to turbid water in the body, using coix seed will be effective.

However, coix seed is slightly cool in nature, and is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach or cold and damp constitution. For example, people with cold limbs, fear of cold, and weak body.

Let's talk about red beans

Red beans can nourish the heart and blood. Ancient books record that "long-term consumption makes people thin." In addition, red beans also have obvious effects of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling, and strengthening the spleen and stomach.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls adzuki beans "red beans". Adzuki beans are often used as medicine, while red beans are taken as food. The properties and nutritional value of the two are very different. Red beans must be used to strengthen the spleen and remove dampness. In the market, real red beans are rarer and more expensive than red beans.

In terms of appearance, adzuki beans are relatively flat and long, while red beans are relatively round. There is a subtle difference between the two.

What? Did you use red beans and coix seeds or did it aggravate the dampness?

Then you must not have fried barley

Job's tears has a slightly cold nature and will damage the spleen if eaten directly after cooking. It is recommended to stir-fry the coix seeds before cooking. The medicinal properties of the stir-fried coix seeds become milder, which is more beneficial for strengthening the spleen and removing dampness than unstir-fried coix seeds.

Maybe rice was added.

When most people cook red bean and coix seed porridge, they often add rice to it for the sake of taste. However, rice grows in a humid environment and has moisture properties. A handful of rice will make the red bean and coix seed lose its moisture-removing and spleen-strengthening effects!

Of course, it is possible that the red beans and coix seeds are not cooked thoroughly.

When cooking porridge, they must be cooked until soft in order to bring out their efficacy and nutritional value. The correct way is: soak it in warm water for 1-2 hours first. If you don’t soak it or are in a hurry and don’t have time to soak it, you can spend more time boiling it.

Of course, there is the last one, which is also the easiest one to make mistakes - there is nothing wrong with red beans and coix seed, you are wrong

Traditional Chinese medicine divides people with heavy moisture in the body into two types: "damp-cold constitution" and "damp-heat constitution".

Red bean and barley porridge is cool in nature and is effective in treating damp-heat constitution. People with damp-cold constitution have weak spleen and stomach, and drinking red bean and barley porridge will only aggravate dampness. When making soup, adding appropriate amount of ginger slices, amomum villosum, tangerine peel, etc. to people with damp-cold constitution can have the effects of regulating qi and strengthening spleen, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, dispersing cold and sweating.

Adding appropriate amounts of warm foods such as ginger slices and peppercorns when cooking can relieve the symptoms of cold hands and feet in people with damp-cold constitution, and has the effect of regulating qi and eliminating dampness. However, wild yam, coix seed, red beans, etc. are not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach.